hahaha these are great mock – ups. It’s really annoying that our media are stealing so much from the Obama campaign, it’s just cringy and makes us look like we’re just suckers for all things American.

Having said that it is easy to see why both Clegg and Cameron have been compared to Obama. They are from the same generation between the Baby Boomers and Generation X…Generation Jones. there’s been quite a lot of buzz about this and I think it’s fascinating. It makes sense to me that buzz has started about this because a similar buzz was developing around the time that Obama got elected in the U.S. and between his election and inauguration, the U.S. media buzzed a lot about Obama representing Generation Jones, which was taking the torch of leadership from the Boomers, etc. If Cameron (or Clegg) win here, this GenJones buzz will grow big, I bet.

From the article: “The exact birth years vary slightly between countries; in the UK, GenJonesers were born from 1955 to 1967, and are now 42 to 55 years old.”

1955 is classic boomerdom.

If you were born in 67 you grew up in 70s/early 80s and were in you 20s in the 1990s, classic gen X.

What he might be talking about is what are sometimes called “Trailing edge boomers” i.e born towards the end of the boom in the early 1960s. Thy are a sub set of a generation, not a generation in themselves and culturally they are very much boomers.

Well, surely all these generational classifications are somewhat arbitrary and open to embellishment and alternative interpretation. I’m not dismissing them, mind, I happen to find them fascinating and sometimes rather useful, but it seems silly to pretend that the schema is rigid. It’s not exactly Linnaean in its rigour, is it. It’s a set of cultural observations rather than a scientific system.